IranWire:

Molavi Abdolhamid, the Friday Prayer Leader of Zahedan and a leading Sunni cleric, wrote on his X account, "The killing of thousands of protesters in Tehran and other cities over just a few days was a horrific and unprecedented catastrophe."

In his post, he continued: “This bitter event has plunged the Iranian nation into grief and rage, and has deeply wounded the conscience of free people across the world.”

He emphasized the responsibility of the “commanders and perpetrators of this crime” during their lifetimes, writing that they will also be “deserving of divine punishment” after death.

On January 13, some news outlets reported that the death toll from the protests had climbed to more than 12,000.

According to these reports, the mass killings occurred on January 8 and 9, after a nationwide internet blackout. For the past six days, the Islamic Republic has cut off Iranian citizens from the global internet and mobile networks.

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